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Here is the fourth and final song from “Rocky Mera Naam”(1973) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle. Naqsh Llayalpuri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Sapan Jagmohan.

The song is pictrised as a mujra dance song. One expects the dancer to lip sync as well as dance. Here there is distribution of labour. One lady lip syncs and another lady performs mujra. Just imagine similar distribution of labour in cricket bowling as well where one person runs on the bowling runup and another person delivers the ball. 🙂 In olden days, some cricket loving maharajas actually played cricket that way. 🙂

I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify the actors visible in the picturisation.

With this song, all the songs of “Rocky Mera Naam”(1973) get covered in the blog and this movie joins the list of movies that have all their songs covered in the blog.

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Blog Day :

3700

Post No. :

14621

Today (4 september 2018) happens to be the 3700th day of existence for this blog. Though we have had 37 such centuries so far, we began to take notice of this century only from century number 34 (viz post number 3400) onwards.

We began to post special articles and songs to mark these special occasions. The 3400th day has an interesting post by Sudhir Jee followed by a post by me and thus started the tradition of celebrating these special kinds of centuries in the blog.

3400th day saw the 3400th song from the decade of 1960s being covered in the blog and that happened to be the century post for lyricist Shewan Rizvi.

Then the 3500th day saw Sudhir Jee digging out a song containing the word “hazaar” in it while I covered a joie de vivre song containing the word “shehnaai” in it.

3600th day saw the memorable title song of “Naseeb”(1981) being discussed on the occasion.

Today (4 september 2018) happens to be the 3700th day of the blog. This occasion too merits special posts marking the occasion. It turns out that the special posts being covered on the occasion were originally meant for some other special occasions, but they are finally ending up as posts celebrating THIS occasion.

For Instance, Sudhir Jee’s post, a thesis par excellence on the HFM scene of 1936, which also coveres K N Singh in detail, was originally meant as part of our series on “Yearwise statistics of HFM”, whose previous instalment was covered in 2015, so this article was in the making for nearly three years. 🙂

Likewise, the song and the topic that I cover in this post was originally meant to be covered on the day the blog turned ten years old, viz on 19 july 2018. My plan was to have a detailed statistical analysis of Mubarak Begam accompanied by her 100th song in the blog. As things happened, I could not achieve that target. Finally we reconciled by marking Mubarak Begam’s century later, coinciding it with the last century of the blog, viz the post number 14600.

I had decided that the next Mubarak Begam song that I was going to cover would contain the statistical analysis of Mubarak Begam. Like Sudhir Jee, I too have decided to fast forward my efforts to coincide my article to appear today as part of 3700th day celebrations.

My research on Mubarak Begam, which has taken me several weeks, reveal that she may have sung a little more than 200 songs in HFM (plus in Bhojpuri, Avadhi etc), and my figure is higher than what is mentioned online by “authentic” sources. I found that quite a few songs not sung by Mubarak Begam are incorrectly attributed to her online. On the other hand, several songs sung by her have gone unattributed to her. Even HFGK does not fully credit all her songs to her. I found that a few movies whose songs contain no mention of singers in HFGK are sung by Mubarak Begam. Finally I ended up a tally of 195 Mubarak Begam songs from 125 movies. I am quite sure that this figure would go up and cross 200 as I listen to a few more songs that are not attributed to any singers in HFGK.

That research would wait. In the meanwhile, here is the moviewise break up of Mubarak Begam songs that I have been able to locate. I have also mentioned the number of Mubarak Begam songs from these movies that have been covered in the blog.

Mubarak Begam songs in movies

SN

Movie

Year

MD

Songs by Mubarak Begam in the blog

Songs by Mubarak Begam in the movie

Remarks

1

Aaiye

1949

Naashaad

2

2

One solo, one duet with Lata

2

Basera

1950

M A Rauf

2

4

Three solo, one duet with B S Nanji

3

Dolti Naiyya

1950

Ram Prasad

0

1

Sung with Nargis (singer) and Munni

4

Phoolon ke Haar

1951

Hansraj Bahl

1

7

Five solos, two duets with Devendra Mohan

5

Mamta

1952

Sonik

1

2

One solo, one duet with Premlata

6

Mordhwaj

1952

Narayan Dutt

0

2

Two solos

7

Sheesha

1952

Ghulam Mohammad

1

1

One solo

8

Chaar Chaand

1953

Naashaad

1

1

One duet with Shivram

9

Dharm Patni

1953

Jamal Sen

1

1

One solo

10

Daaera

1953

Jamal Sen

4

4

Three solo, one duet with Rafi

11

Africa

1954

Robin Chatterji

1

2

Two solos

12

Ameer

1954

Pt Lachchiram

0

2

Two solos

13

Aulaad

1954

Sardar Malik

1

1

One duet with Shamshad Begam

14

Chaandni Chowk

1954

Roshan

1

1

One solo

15

Daak Baabu

1954

Dhaniram

2

2

One solo, one duet with Talat Mehmood

16

Gawaiyya

1954

Ram Ganguly

2

2

Two solo

17

Gul Bahaar

1954

Dhaniram

1

2

Two solo

18

Haar Jeet

1954

S D Batish

1

2

One solo, one duet with Geeta Dutt

19

Maan

1954

Anil Biswas

1

1

One duet with Kalyani

20

Rishta

1954

K Datta

2

2

Two solo

21

Sangam

1954

Ram Ganguly

1

1

One duet with Talat Mehmood

22

Shabaab

1954

Naushad

1

1

Song with Rafi and Bande Hasan

23

Baradari

1955

Naashaad

1

1

One duet with Lata

24

Devdas

1955

S D Burman

1

1

One solo

25

Jasoos (UR)/td>

1955

Iqbal Qureshi

0

2

Two solo

26

Khaandaan

1955

A R Qureshi

1

1

One duet with Yashodhara

27

Kundan

1955

Ghulam Mohammad

1

1

One solo

28

Patit Paawan

1955

Jamal Sen

1

1

One duet with Sudha Malhotra

29

Post Master

1955

Ram Ganguly

0

2

One solo, one duet with O P Verma

30

Rukhsaana

1955

Sajjad Hussain

2

2

One solo, one duet with Asha Bhonsle

31

Sakhi Lutera

1955

Iqbal Qureshi

1

1

One solo

32

Sau Ka Note

1955

S Mohinder

1

1

One duet with Shamshad Begam

33

Shaahi Chor

1955

Dhaniram

1

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

34

Shah Behram

1955

Hansraj Bahl

0

1

One solo

35

Taatar Ka Chor

1955

Khayyam

1

1

One song with Talat Mehmood and Asha Bhonsle

36

Aan Baan

1956

Husnlal Bhagatram

0

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

37

Aawaara Shahzaadi

1956

Naashaad

0

2

One solo, one duet with Shashikant

38

Baadal Aur Bijli

1956

Bipin Baabul

1

3

Two solo, one duet with Talat Mehmood

39

Baaghi Sardaar

1956

B N Bali

1

2

Two solo

40

Baghdad Ka Jaadoo

1956

Shafi M Nagri

3

3

Two solo, one duet with Manmohan Krishna

41

Dhola Maaru

1956

S K Pal

0

2

Two solo

42

Do Shahzaade

1956

Pt Lachchiram

0

2

Two solo

43

Fighting Queen

1956

Nisaar Bazmi

0

3

Three solo

44

Harihar Bhakti

1956

K Datta

1

4

Two solo, one duet with Talat Mehmood, one duet with Sulochana Chonkar

45

Hatimtai

1956

S N Tripathi

0

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

46

Jungle Queen

1956

Nisaar Bazmi

0

4

Four solo

47

Laal e Yaman

1956

A R Qureshi

0

1

One solo

48

Rangeen Raaten

1956

Roshan

1

1

One duet with Sudha Malhotra

49

Sultaana Daaku

1956

Bipin Babul

0

2

Two solo

50

Fashion

1957

Hemant Kumar

0

1

One duet with Sulochana Chonkar

51

Gateway of India

1957

Madan Mohan

1

1

One song with Asha Bhonsle, Meena Mangeshkar and Usha Mangeshkar

52

Paak Daaman

1957

Ghulam Mohammad

0

1

One song with Rafi, S Balbir and Mirza Musharraf

53

Paataal Pari

1957

S Mohinder

1

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

54

Paisa

1957

Ram Ganguly

0

1

One solo

55

Parveen

1957

A R Qureshi

1

2

Two solo

56

Chetak Rana Pratap

1958

Iqal Qureshi

0

1

One solo

57

Jungle Princess

1958

Bipin Mehboob

1

1

One duet with Jaani Babu Qawwaal

58

Madhumati

1958

Salil Chaudhary

1

1

One solo

59

Sim Sim Marjeena

1958

A R Qureshi

0

1

One song with Rafi and Sudha Malhotra

60

Behraam Daaku

1959

Saadat Khan

1

1

One solo

61

Blackmailer

1959

Iqbal

0

1

One solo

62

Cheeni Jaadoogar

1959

Shafi M Nagri

0

2

Two solo

63

Circus Queen

1959

Shafi M Nagri

1

3

One solo, two duets with S Balbir

64

Hero No 1

1959

Iqbal

0

2

Two solo

65

Maa Ka Aansoo

1959

Sardar Malik

0

1

One solo

66

Mughal e Azam

1960

Naushad

0

1

One song with Lata and Shamshad Begam

67

Return of Mr Superman

1960

Anil Biswas

1

1

One solo

68

Veer Durgadas

1960

S N Tripathi

1

1

One duet with Sudha Malhotra

69

Zaalim Jaadoogar

1960

Iqbal Qureshi

2

3

One duet with Khursheed Bawra

70

Arab Ka Sitaara

1961

Saadat Ali

1

4

Three solo, one duet with Minu Purushottam

71

Daakoo Mansoor

1961

Krishn Kamal

1

1

One solo

72

Dekhi Teri Bambai

1961

Vinod

1

1

One duet with S Balbir

73

Hamaari Yaad Aayegi

1961

Snehal Bhatkar

2

2

One solo, one duet with Mukesh

74

Nightbird

1961

Iqbal

1

1

One duet with Chaandbala

75

Piya Milan Ki Aas

1961

S N Tripathi

1

1

One solo

76

Shaahi Farmaan

1961

Harbans

0

2

Two solo

77

State Express

1961

Gunjan

1

1

One solo

78

Zindagi Aur Khwaab

1961

Dattaram

1

1

One solo

79

Cobra Girl

1963

S N Tripathi

1

1

One duet with Suman Kalyanpur

80

Hamraahi

1963

Shankar Jaikishan

1

1

One solo

81

Sunahri Naagin

1963

Kalyanji Anandji

1

1

One duet with Kamal Barot

82

Ye Dil Kisko Doon

1963

Iqbal Qureshi

1

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

83

Aandhi Aur Toofaan

1964

Robin Bannerji

1

1

One solo

84

Balma Bada Nadaan (Bhojpuri)

1964

Hemant Kumar

0

1

One solo

85

Benazir

1964

S D Burman

2

2

One solo, one duet with Asha Bhonsle

86

Fariyaad

1964

Snehal Bhatkar

1

3

Two solo, one duet with Rafi

87

Hameer Hathh

1964

Sanmukh Babu Upadhya

1

1

One solo

88

Kab Hoihain Gavanwa Hamaar (Bhojpuri)

1964

Iqbal Qureshi

0

2

Two solo

89

Magic Carpet

1964

Ram Prasad

0

1

One solo

90

Marvel Man

1964

Robin Bannerji

1

1

One solo

91

Naihar Chhutal Jaaye (Bhojpuri)

1964

Jaidev

0

1

One solo

92

Pahaadi Naagin

1964

Iqbal Qureshi

1

2

One solo, one duet with Ambar Kumar

93

Punar Milan

1964

C Arjun

1

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

94

Qawwaali Ki Raat

1964

Iqbal Qureshi

2

2

Two duets with Rafi

95

Shagoon

1964

Khayyam

1

1

One duet with Talat Mehmood

96

Tarzan and Captain Kishore

1964

Manoharlal-S Kishan

0

2

Two solos

97

Aarzoo

1965

Shankar Jaikishan

1

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

98

Black Arrow

1965

Iqbal Qureshi

0

1

One duet with Jaani Babu Qawwaal

99

Khooni Khazaana

1965

S Kishan

1

1

One solo

100

Main Hoon Jaadoogar

1965

Nashaad-Premnath

1

2

One duet with Meena Patki, one duet with Suman Kalyanpur

101

Mohabbat Iski Kehte Hain

1965

Khayyam

1

1

One solo

102

Morey Man Mitwa

1965

Dattaram

1

1

One solo

103

Shakespearwaallah

1965

Prayag Raj

1

1

One solo

104

Tarzan and King Kong

1965

Robin Bannerji

1

1

One solo

105

Gogola

1966

Roy-Frank

2

2

One duet with Talat Mehmood, one duet with Mahendra Kapoor

106

Neend Hamaari Khwaab Tumhaare

1966

Madan Mohan

1

1

One duet with Asha Bhonsle

107

Professor Aur Jaadoogar

1966

Sardar Singh

1

1

One solo

108

Susheela

1966

C Arjun

2

2

One solo, one duet with Rafi
Same songs were later reused in “Subah Zaroor Aayegi”(1977)

109

Teesri Kasam

1966

Shankar Jaikishan

1

1

One duet with Shambhu Qawwaal

110

Zimbo Finds a Son

1966

Sapan Jagmohan

0

1

One duet with Bhupinder Singh

111

Aawaara Ladki

1967

Dhaniram

0

1

One solo

112

Around The World

1967

Shankar Jaikishan

1

1

One duet with Sharda

113

Mera Bhai Mera Dushman

1967

Khayyam

0

2

One solo, one duet with S Balbir

114

Poonam Ka Chaand

1967

Ninu Majumdar

0

1

One solo

115

Juaari

1968

Kalyanji Anandji

1

1

One song with Suman Kalyanpur and Krishna Bose

116

Nadirshah

1968

S N Tripathi

0

1

One solo

117

Saraswati Chandra

1968

Kalyanji Anandji

1

1

One solo

118

Ham Ek Hain

1969

Usha Khanna

0

1

One duet with Kamal Barot

119

Murder on Highway (UR)

1970

C Arjun

0

1

One solo

120

Chandan

1971

Sonik Omi

0

2

One solo, one duet with Usha Mangeshkar

121

Narad Leela

1972

Narayan Dutt

0

1

One solo

122

Chattan Singh

1974

Kalyanji Anandji

0

1

One solo

123

Ramu To Deewaana Hai

1980

Chandru

1

2

Two solo

124

Ganga Maang Rahi Balidaan

1981

Prem Dhawan

0

3

Three duets with Shamshad Begam

125

Sister

1982

J Kaushik

1

1

One solo

One can see from the above that Mubarak Begam typically got two or three songs in a movie and that she typically got to sing in five or six movies in a year. In addition, she mostly sang in small budget movies that had small time struggling music directors in them. In all, she worked with 61 music directors. So, on an average, she sang three or four songs with each of her music directors.

On rare occasions, she got to work with A grade music directors, viz Naushad and S D Burman, but only in two movies each. The music director who collaborated with her most frequently was Iqbal Qureshi. She had 15 songs with him from nine movies. These are the figures for her most fruitful collaboration ! She was not able to forge any long term collaboration with any established music directors and that is reflected in her poor return of around 200 songs in a career spanning nearly three decades.

This movie had four songs in it. One song from the movie has been covered in the past.

HFGK does not mention the singers of the four songs from this movie. On listening to these songs, one finds that as many as three of these songs contain the voice of Mubarak Begam in them.

Here is the second song from “Circus Queen”(1959) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Mubarak Begam. Naqsh Llayalpuri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Shafi M Nagri.

The song is picturised as a club dance song. I am unable to identify the dancer. I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify the dancer as well as the other actors visible in the picturisation.

This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :

3656

Post No. :

14517

Mukesh and his Composers – 15
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Remembering Mukesh on his birthday (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976)

Mukesh singing for Bappi Lahari is bound to raise eyebrows for the simple reason that the two artists worked in two different periods of time.
However, when Bappida started his hindi music journey in the beginning of the 70s, Mukesh was still giving playback. His first score for hindi movies was for the film Nanha Shikari (1973) and incidentally his first composition featured Mukesh. This was a pleasant surprise for me, when I was going through some articles on Bappida. For his fans here is his official website.

Coming to the next part of this series and after a long time, here is the short collaboration of Mukesh singing for Bappida. (The post itself is even shorter ) 🙂

There are only two songs; a duet with Sushma Shrestha in Nanha Shikari (1973) and a solo from Bazaar Band Karo (1974) which I present in this post.

S.No

Name of song

Movie (Year of release)

Co-singer if any

Lyricist

1

mohe kar de vidaa de ke pyaar

Bazaar Band Karo (1974)

Naqsh Lyallpuri

2

tu hi mera chanda tu hi taara

Nanha Shikari (1973)

Sushma Shrestha

Yogesh

“Bazaar Band Karo” is a 1974 Bollywood film produced and directed by B. R. Ishara and starring Manhar Desai and Asha Chandra. One song from the film is already posted on the blog and this is the second out of the four songs from the movie.

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The movie had four songs in it. One song has been covered in the past.

Here is the second song from “Man Tera Tan Mera”(1971) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Mukesh. Naqsh Llayalpuri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Sapan Jagmohan.

Only the audio of this song is available. Like most Mukesh songs, this song too bears the mdas touch of Mukesh, but this song somehow managed to end up becoming an obscure song. The fact that the movie failed at the box office obviously has to be the main reason why this song failed to get enough exposure among music lovers.

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Blog Day :

3645

Post No. :

14474

The Hindi movie music has undergone changes with time. It is seen that the music style of the dominant music director of the era is ofter copied by other music directors. For instance, there were occasions when Madan Mohan, Roshan etc copied the music style of O P Nayyar, whereas Kalyanji Anandji’s music sounded like Shankar Jaikishan during late 1950s to mid 1960s. Music directors copied the music style of R D Burman during 1970s.

1980s was the era of disco music and Bappi Lahiri was the most sought after music director of those days. It was a mixed feeling for music lovers to find senior music directors like Laxmikant Pyarelal composing Bappi Lahiri kind of music during 1970s.

Here is a song where as music director like Khayyam has composed a Bappi Lahiri like song. This song is sung by Kishore Kumar and it is picturised on Rajesh Khanna wielding a guitar on stage while many spectators watch his performance. His song seems the have the kind of effect on Jaya Prada (seated among the audience)that this song intended, namely to make her feel like a “bewafa”. Shatrughan Sinha is also seated beside her but he is none the wiser about what is going on in the mind of Jaya Prada.

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This obscure movie had four obscure songs in it. Here is the first song from “Daawat”(1974) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Mukesh and Asha Bhonsle. Naqsh Llayalpuri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Bipin Baabul.

Only the audio of the song is available. Lisateing to the song, one can guess that it is a “sulking-appeasing” genre of song. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as well as on the picturisation of the song.

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Here is the fourth and final song from “Kaaghaz Ki Naao”(1975) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Asha Bhonsle. Naqsh Llayalpuri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Sapan Jagmohan.

The song is picturised as a mujra song on Aruna Irani and Pradeep Kumar.

With this song, “Kaaghaz Ki Naao”(1975) joins the list of movies that have all their songs covered in the blog.

This song marks an “artificial”, but significant century for the blog. “Kaaghaz Ki Naao”(1975) becomes the 1100th movie that has been YIPPEED in the blog. To put things in perspective, 1100 movies constitutes some one fifth of all the movies that were released from 1931 till 1980. These 1100 movies had nearly 7100 songs in them, viz. 50 % of all the songs covered in the blog.

While some movies are easy to YIPPEE, if all their songs are all time classics and so readily available, majority of movies are such that at least one or two of their songs are rare and obscure. Searching for these songs can be a tall order. There are cases where the missing songs are not even available online. There are several instances where the missing songs of these movies had to be uploaded and made available online for the first time by us (read by Sudhir Ji).

One benefit of YIppying a movie is that we no longer have to search for songs of that movie. We can forget about these movies and concentrate of movies that are as yet unyippeed.

To take the example of the year 1959, 1959 saw as many as 114 movies getting released. 103 of these movies are represented in the blog. As many as 47 of these movies are already YIPPEED. This is the highest number of YIPPEED movies from one calender year. So in effect, now we only have to search for missing songs from 56 + 11 movies of 1959.

“Rajnigandha”(1974) was the first movie to be YIPPEED in the blog on 10 september 2008. We were not even aware of this fact on that date. 🙂 It was the only YIPPEED movie during 2008. 2009 saw another 8 movies getting YIPPEED. It is from 2012 that we consciously started thinking on YIPPYing movies. More that 10 movies each are being YIPPEED since 2012. As many as 202 movies were YIPPEED in 2013, which is the highest number of movies YIPPEED in a year.

This year 2018 has seen us YIPPYIng at least one movie every day. Till now we have YIPPEED 66 movies in 65 days of the year. We were on a similar new year resolution during the last year of 2017 as well. On that year we posted one YIPPEE every day till 5 may 2017, viz for 125 days, when that steak got broken on 6 may 2017. Let us see how long our unbroken streak of 2018 lasts. 🙂

The blog at present has songs from 3858 movies and we are adding one extra movie every day (which is another new year resolution with us). My guess is that all the songs may be available for around 2000 movies. It may not be possible for other movies to get YIPPEED because all songs of these movies are not available.

Time will show whether I am proved right or otherwise vis a vis final tally of YIPPEED movies in the blog. For now, let us celebrate having the 1100th YIPPEED movie in the blog.